Recorded on 2022-03-24
Artist Olia Fedorova lives and is sheltering in Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv, 40 kilometers from the border with Russia. She shares stories about day to day life during wartime, reflects on how the meaning of her art is changing since the invasion and her views on Russian culture and imperialism.
Listen ->Recorded on 2022-03-10
Elena Subach and Viachelslav Poliakov talk about the Russian invasion of their country and the impact of the war on their life and practice from the Western edge of Ukraine where they are volunteering to help refugees flee into neighboring Central European countries. Music by Maryana Klochoko.
Listen ->Recorded on 2021-12-20
Aida Sulova (KGZ) talks with Janeil Engelstad about her recent exhibition “News From Central Asia,” organized for The Jewelry Library in NYC and her practice building communities and planting seeds for social change in Kyrgyzstan and the US.
Listen ->Recorded on 2021-09-17
MAP’s Janeil Engelstad talks with Albanian artist Endri Dani and Hungarian artist Judit Kis about their experiences and the work they produced while artists in residence at Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Listen ->Recorded on 2021-07-31
Steven began the session by tying it back to an earlier presentation of his Expanded Diagram Project. One of his aspirations of that still ongoing study is to transcend the overly constrained, largely western-based categories of contemporary art by illuminating specific kinds of creative processes that span a wide range of historical and contemporary world […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2021-08-13
A rising start in European Art, independent curator and art historian Róna Kopeczky talks with MAP’s Janeil Engelstad about the importance of caregiving and how that is central to her curation, feminism in the former communist bloc countries, the expanding notion of the print and more.
Listen ->Recorded on 2020-12-01
How would enabling professionals with knowledge in coding transform medical practice in developing countries? Join us with Ayen Kuol and Stephen Lagu as we dive into the landscape of coding technology in practice and explore its relationship & possibilities with the people of South Sudan. We introduce the concept of the ‘psychology of coding’ , […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2020-12-18
Janeil Engelstad talks with Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, founders of Land Art Generator about the social impact, politics and aesthetics of renewable energy, and the role of art in providing solutions to climate change.
Listen ->Recorded on 2020-10-21
Our guest today is Toni Jensen, the author of Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and indigenous women’s lives which is out now from Ballantine Books. Carry was described as “an unsettling account that creeps into your bones” in the New York Times Book Review. She’s previously […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2020-10-20
We discussed ideas around embodiment, re-embodiment, kimospheres, atmospheres, technology and issues related to the practice of Johannes Birringer as a choreographer, director and professor of performance technologies. His publications have taken up important issues surrounding the body and technologies, theatre, dance, and choreography. Birringer underlines the pivotal moment when he attended a Pina Bausch performance, […]
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